OuiShare Research Workshop 2016

We are very pleased to invite you to join your fellow collaborative economy researchers for a half-day workshop in Paris on Friday 20 May 2016, from 9.30 to 13.00, at the Cabaret Sauvage, in the boat facing the OuiShare Fest*.

The OSResearch Network has formed last year to map out current research in the collaborative economy. Since the 1st OSResearch workshop, several seminars and workshops have taken place in different locations in the past year.

We witness the increased interest and relevance for the role of research in the collaborative economy, bearing academic rigour in research methods and analyses, bridging “practitioners” problems and contemporary issues with theoretical contribution, representing the research community to glo-cal stakeholders (grassroots, governmental or business organisations, etc.) and collaborating for access to data, research funding, writing reports, sharing case studies and so on.

Objectives

The workshop is designed to network with other researchers, share knowledge within an interdisciplinary community, map the landscape of interests, discuss research priorities and collaborate on future research projects.

Various activities and discussions aim to foster exchange. In the OuiShare spirit, participants are invited to share their experience with regards to getting access to data, finding their theoretical framework, addressing societal issues, etc.

* This researchers’ event happens during the OuiShare Fest 2016 “After the Gold Rush”. Friday morning has no planned activities in the programme. Participation in the workshop DO NOT INCLUDE an entrance ticket to the fest.

Practical Info

The workshop is open to researchers whose research interests relate to any aspects of the collaborative economy, such as the socio-cultural impact and ecological impact of sharing, models of distributed governance, business model analysis, platform cooperativsm, crowd-financing and P2P lending, regulation and law issues, open source and open knowledge, blockchain applications, the makers movement and peer production, using GIS data and so on.